Nutella Filled Chocolate Cookies

Rich chocolate cookies with a gooey Nutella centre.

Makes 8 cookies

Ingredients

100g butter, softened

50g light brown sugar

50g caster sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

1 large egg

100g self raising flour

25g cocoa powder

50g white chocolate chips

50 milk chocolate chips

8 tsp of Nutella

Method

- Firstly prepare the Nutella filling by adding 1 tsp dollops of Nutella onto a lined baking tray

- Place in the freezer to harden for an hour minimum (I left mine overnight)

- Preheat the oven to gas mark 4 / 180 degrees celsius and line an oven tray with baking paper

- In a large bowl, add butter and both sugars - Beat with a wooden spoon until it is well mixed

- Then add the vanilla, egg and flour. Mix and add the chocolate chips

- Divide the mixture into 8 equal portions and gently push the frozen nutella filling into the centre of each cookie

- Cover the Nutella filling with the cookie dough shaping it into a ball

- Place them onto the oven tray making sure they are well spaced apart

- Cook for 12 minutes until slightly firm and then remove from the oven

- Leave to cool completely on the baking tray